Rainn Wilson - "Like your kids"

About this episode

Dan Mangan discusses family, faith, and art with Rainn Wilson, touching on various societal issues and personal experiences.

Dan discusses family, world woes, faith and art with the multifaceted Rainn Wilson (The Office, The Meg, Almost Famous). Among other things, they chat about Rainn's experience as Dwight Schrute on The Office, the "great lie" of society, willful blindness to climate change, the handsomeness of Hank Azaria, Rainn's experience growing up in an unhappy family, the power of mentors, and homicidal soap opera villains. They also talk about Rainn's book SOUL BOOM and his plea for the world not to throw the baby of spirituality out with the bath water of organized religion. This episode features a surprise needle drop of "Dance" by Tim Baker.

People in this episode

Host: Dan Mangan

Guest: Rainn Wilson

Topics covered

• family
• faith
• art
• climate change
• spirituality
• mentorship

Keywords

• Rainn Wilson
• Dan Mangan
• The Office
• SOUL BOOM
• climate change
• spirituality
• mentors
• family
• art

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Office, SOUL BOOM

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